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Huddled in their own bunker, only paces away from the dressing room, the coaches were listening. Not eavesdropping, exactly. Because it had been evident what was going on during Tuesday’s second intermission, what with the Calgary Flames down 2-0 and stuck in neutral. “You could hear the leaders in there,” says coach Bob Hartley. “You could hear that there were real […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Really, the moment had been inevitable. That day that Alex Ovechkin would become the Washington Capitals’ all-time leading scorer. Some observers might be surprised that the official ascension had not already occurred.

There’s nothing remotely capable of replacing a mom’s peace of mind. “It’s amazing,” Jane Gaudreau is saying between first and second periods Thursday night, “how many people have come up to us since we’ve been here and said ‘We really like your son. We’re really glad he’s here.’ Which, as parents, make you feel so much better because we’re so far away and we’re not going to get to many games.

It was just before the snow fell in mid-October of 2011 that French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and a team of location scouts took on an epic journey in southwestern Alberta. An exacting, Oscar-nominated art-house director, Jeunet was looking for a suitably bucolic backdrop to play Montana for his 3-D film, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — MTV and social issues go together like CBC and mud wrestling. So when MTV programming executives unveiled the new documentary series Virgin Territory, about the psychological and societal pressure facing 15 young adults as they struggled over whether to remain a virgin in their young-adult years, the discomfort in the room was palpable. The channel formerly known as Music TV is better known for programs like Jersey Shore and Catfish: The TV Show, after all.

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